Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Cancer

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♋ Cancer

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 13 June 2075 at 14:39.

Strawberry Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2075 after 11 days on 28 June 2075 at 09:46.

Neap tide

There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1775"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1889".

Lunation 933 / 1886

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 933 of Meeus index or 1886 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.65 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 32 minutes and it is 33 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2075. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠170.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠170.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠193.2°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 14 June 2075 at 16:13 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 June 2075 at 08:13 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 403 727 km

The Moon is 403 727 km (250 864 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 098 km (221 890 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 15 June 2075 at 11:01 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 June 2075 at 21:55 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 15 June 2075 at 06:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.672° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.668° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 June 2075 at 18:29 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 28 June 2075 at 09:46 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov